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Providence Youth Student Movement supports release of video by PERA Director
“We call on the PERA Board, City Council, and the Mayor’s office to support Director Batista in holding the Providence Police accountable for their violence. More police officers, more trainings, more body cams are not the answer in keeping our communities safe."
Germaine Bruce was helping a friend start her car. Then the police arrived...
"They just started hitting me in my ribs. I was like, 'You guys are taking this way too far.' They grabbed me, picked me up. 'We're arresting you now for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct,' said the cops and I'm like, 'Why did this even get to the point where I'm getting arrested?'"
PERA Director Batista unilaterally releases Sgt Hanley video
"These videos are public records," said Director Batista, "and today I have decided to honor a couple of the public requests that I have received."
Raimondo and Elorza push ahead with multi-hub bus plan despite the objections of riders
"Forcing thousands and thousands of bus riders, including children and the disabled, into the cramped, remote Dyer St site known for its reported contamination just emphasizes the disregard that the Governor is showing for Rhode Islanders who use mass transit..."
Demonstrators blockade roads to Wyatt Detention Center, Demand closure of the facility
"The existence of the Wyatt is inhumane and violent. People detained by ICE have written to us, gone on hunger strike during COVID, and now are getting sick at a rapid rate. Shutting down the Wyatt, and all prisons and detention centers, is the only humane and just solution."
Family and friends turn out to support Jonas Pierre at his bail hearing
Family and friends of Jonas Pierre, who faces misdemeanor charges of threatening right-wing radio host John DePetro and has been held without bail at the ACI, gathered at the Garrahy Judicial Complex on Friday morning to hold signs and s...
A deeper look at the case against Jonas Pierre
Despite the so-called Providence Purge not being included in the arrest report or apparently being related to any of the charges brought against Pierre, it was featured prominently in the sensationalized media coverage of Pierre's arrest... There is no indication that Pierre created the flyer, and dozens, perhaps hundreds of people, have shared it.
We Keep Us Safe: The election day march to shut down the Wyatt
"No matter who wins [the election] today or in the coming days, we will still show up for each other because we'll still have to. No matter who wins we still need to protect Black lives, we still need to abolish the police and ICE and we still need to shut down the Wyatt."
Rally to Support Our Youth and Protest Police Brutality
"We saw [the police] more concerned about their own appearance than about the health and welfare of one of the children of our city... I was appalled by the lack of sensitivity by the police. [That person] just needed some attention, some tender loving care and to be brought to the hospital as soon as possible."
LEOBoR task force hearing takes up Anastasia Williams legislation
"…what LEOBoR has done is supersized due process well beyond the realm of what the United States Supreme Court requires. And that begs the question… Why is this so? …why is it easier to swiftly but fairly discipline a public works employ...